definitive
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In a follow-up statement, the company pointed out that accounting rules prevented it from counting loans and asset sales still being negotiated until definitive agreements were signed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
You came to a pretty definitive idea about him on the show.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
The single definitive state reply came from Florida’s attorney general’s office, which concurred with ICE’s findings that the death of Royer Pérez Jiménez, 19, at the Glades County Detention Center was a “presumed suicide.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The totals are not definitive and could yet rise.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
While the Viking biology experiments are a pioneering first effort, they hardly represent a definitive search for life on Mars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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